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Sika provided the durable, hygienic coating system to ensure that the walls and floors of one of Europe’s largest biomedical research facilities world remain infection and contamination-free

After less than five months on site, the Portakabin Group has handed over a £2 million, four-storey building for office support staff at the University Hospital Southampton, which will also create space for further development.

Generous parents (Gill and Matthew Ashton) raised money to improve the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

‘Performance’, ‘Inspiration’, and ‘Aspiration’, are the keywords behind the 2016 Building Performance Conference and Exhibition, organised by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), as it officially launches this year’s programme.

With medical workstations in ICUs, CCUs, recovery, PICU, and operating rooms ‘subject to new challenges and modifications almost daily’, Trumpf Medical’s ‘highly flexible’ supply system, TruPort, has a modular design that allows users to integrate new components whenever necessary, ‘or to completely reconfigure the supply units’.

International design and technology firm, IBI Group, has been appointed as specialist advisor in support of the NHS England Healthy New Towns programme.

Looking ‘to revolutionise’ the way estates teams countrywide deal with the ACoP L8’s requirement for quarterly de-scaling and deep cleaning of showerheads and hoses, Dupal UK has created a purpose-built recyclable showerhead

Schneider Electric continues to develop its range of SMART, connected electrical distribution equipment with its new Masterpact MTZ Air Circuit breaker (ACB).

Visitors to this month’s Healthcare Estates 2016 show in Manchester will be able to pick up a copy of a special Reader Survey Report detailing the results of a survey launched by IHEEM and Wandsworth Healthcare in HEJ in May

In a claimed world first, Medstor will soon start work in Copenhagen with Danish consulting company, ALECTIA, equipping two automated warehouses built to deliver sterile goods and services.

BOC Healthcare says its Cryogenic Safety Course ‘gives everyone working with liquid nitrogen the skills and knowledge needed to handle a potentially dangerous element safely and with confidence’.

Vernacare claims to be ‘the only company to manufacture a single-use human waste disposal system’; it says the system ‘helps to decrease the risk of cross-infection, while improving environmental performance and generating cost savings’.

Work has begun on site to create of one of the first proton beam therapy cancer treatment centres to be built in England.

May this year saw MTX Contracts awarded the contract to design, construct, and commission, a new single-storey Endoscopy Unit for the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton.

Philips recently announced the publication of a new report – Evidence for Supported Self Care at Scale – detailing the findings of a large-scale supported self-care programme rolled out across Liverpool among 1,808 people living with long-term conditions including diabetes, heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Pall Medical’s new QPoint Shower Filter Assembly, the latest addition to its Point-ofUse Water Filter product range, ‘combines an ergonomic, reusable, chromed shower handle docking station with an exchangeable filter capsule, designed and validated for retention of waterborne microorganisms such as Legionellaspp, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, non-tuberculous Mycobacteria, Escherichia coli, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Cryptosporidium parvum for up to 62 days’.

The first scientists have moved into the new £650 m Francis Crick Institute building in London, and are starting work in their purpose-built laboratories.

Twenty-six of ‘the most digitally advanced’ NHS Trusts have been invited by NHS England to apply for a ‘£100 m+ funding pot’ to ‘become centres of global digital excellence and drive forward better use of technology in health’.

Now available from the exclusive UK channel partner for online sales of the product, Lamp Shop Online, is the Brite Source Pyropanel, reportedly the first certified 30-minute fire-resistant LED light panel available in the UK.

Consulting building services and engineering partnership, Troup Bywaters + Anders (TB+A), has been crowned winner of the Excellence in Social Responsibility (Up to 249 employees) category at the annual Investors in People Awards 2016.